This wiki page features our ideas for teaching a language-focused minilesson for a microteaching session this semester. Be sure to consider the collaborative and peer language-focused activities we complete in class.
Directions: Add you name below along with your microteaching focus (for example, punctuating dialogue). Your microteaching will be comprised of a minilesson focused on teaching some aspect of language (rather than focusing on some other aspect of ELA). Use the text of your minilesson focus to create your own minilesson wiki page where you flesh out your ideas for your instructional plan. We'll use these to provide feedback for one another! See my example below and then post your ideas and create your wiki pages! See example plans as needed for ideas.
IMPORTANT: Keep in mind that your mini-lesson idea and focus should represent a language exploration and awareness, contextualized approach (ref. Andrews, Weaver, Killgallon, Noden, etc.) rather than repeat the status quo of the way in which language has been taught in the past! No decontextualized grammar lessons! Push for complexity of ideas!
Sources for your minilesson might include any of the resources we've explored in class together, including: Andrews, sentence-composing strategies resources, Killgallon, Weaver, the Narrowing the Focus Packet, as well as any of the posts on Language Today.
Lesson Plan Examples: These plans represent good attempts at a language exploration and awareness, contextualized approach to teaching some aspect of language.
Directions: Add you name below along with your microteaching focus (for example, punctuating dialogue). Your microteaching will be comprised of a minilesson focused on teaching some aspect of language (rather than focusing on some other aspect of ELA). Use the text of your minilesson focus to create your own minilesson wiki page where you flesh out your ideas for your instructional plan. We'll use these to provide feedback for one another! See my example below and then post your ideas and create your wiki pages! See example plans as needed for ideas.
IMPORTANT: Keep in mind that your mini-lesson idea and focus should represent a language exploration and awareness, contextualized approach (ref. Andrews, Weaver, Killgallon, Noden, etc.) rather than repeat the status quo of the way in which language has been taught in the past! No decontextualized grammar lessons! Push for complexity of ideas!
Sources for your minilesson might include any of the resources we've explored in class together, including: Andrews, sentence-composing strategies resources, Killgallon, Weaver, the Narrowing the Focus Packet, as well as any of the posts on Language Today.
Lesson Plan Examples: These plans represent good attempts at a language exploration and awareness, contextualized approach to teaching some aspect of language.
An Example of a Language-Focused Minilesson Idea posting:
Dr. Young - punctuating dialogue
Add your names, ideas, and links below...
Hannah A - Their, There, or They're?
Kelsey B - add your focus idea here...
keep going...
Mary W- Audience MW
Robin O - Sentence Combining
Jade G - Me or I?
Paige S - Homophones
Kaitlyn K ~ Focus
Stephanie C - Minilesson on Hyphens
Alex G.- Mini Lesson Draft-AG
Hailee- Mini-Lesson (Microteaching) Step 3-HK
Pryscilla Lee -Vocabulary
Kara E- Metaphor vs. Simile
Michelle Parker - Adjectives MLP
Stephanie Snead- Subject-Verb Agreement
Rachel McSwain - Alliteration
Stephanie Hairyes: Verb Tenses